Another challenge of memorization is that one sound can be represented by many different letter combinations. The sound “i” (as in “beet”) can be represented by any of these letters and combinations: υ ι η ει οι Some of the letters that look English letters are pronounced much ...
Here's the alphabet — the capital and lower case Greek, the letter's name, and the very approximate English (and NATO and Old English and Scottish and French) equivalent. If you just see boxes or gibberish, use a better browser that understands Unicode. Greek Name English Α α Alpha...
Noetica, the point is that these are not gaps to be filled. The Unicode ideal is that a single character composed of a base letter and diacritics be encoded with multiple codepoints, one for the base letter and one for each diacritic. They can still be handled as single characters; a k...
Γειασου! (yia su!). That’s how to say “hello” in Greek! But there’s actually a lot more you should know about Greek greetings…